Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nashville, a convention of 90 Methodist church leaders took time out to denounce the campaign as "a new low" in advertising. Asked one embattled parent in the Nashville Banner: "Should I . . . go into debt ... in order that my children can see highlights of football, an ancient fourth-rate movie followed by a full program of wrestling...
Meanwhile, other anti-Goslinites had been denouncing his reformed curriculum as too progressive. They organized a School Development Council, bought radio time to air their opposition. "There is far too much paint-daubing," cried the Pasadena Independent, "[and] far too little discipline." Many a Pasadena parent agreed: some were sincerely worried about the elimination of report cards in the lower grades (though that was a pre-Goslin innovation) and what seemed a lack of emphasis on the three...
...fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town officials asked the Army at Fort Sheridan for guidance, who asked Fifth Army headquarters in Chicago, who asked the Pentagon...
...article was written because a young parent who uses the pseudonym John William Sperry† happened to get into casual conversation with an English teacher in a Midwestern town...
...True Comics to tell the stories of great men and great deeds. True Comics made a poor showing against its hardboiled, blood-spilling brethren, and Hecht recently dropped it. In Children's Digest, he hopes to put over the idea in a slightly different way. Said hopeful Parent Hecht: "We think we can build the Digest...